Wich PCI-E W-Lan cards for UTM Home?

Hi Meghan,

The only internal WiFi supported is one of the Atheros PCI cards that's used in the SG 1x5w series.

Cheers - Bob

Hi,

wich Atheros chipset is used at sg 1x5 series?

Regards Meghan

Google site:community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/f atheros PCI, limiting the search to 1/1/2016 to today.

Cheers - Bob

in this thread https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/f/wireless-security/56517/software-appliance-with-wlan

there is some Sophos SG125W Hardware listed with

0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:003c]

So I think devices with chipset QCA988x/986x using 168c:003c PCI ID

But the question is, are the drivers for SG hardware in software image?

Best

Alex

P.S. Maybe this one is interesting too http://skyline-bw.com/wordpress/2016/11/20/compex-wle200nx-mit-sophos-utm/

"...  are the drivers for SG hardware in software image?" - They must be, otherwise how would people have gotten internal WiFi cards to work?

Cheers - Bob

I think the Compex WLE600VX has that ID. Whether it works or not is another matter. I have one on order so I guess I'll know soon enough.

To what I've read on the internet the Compex WLE600VX was working. According to https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Rivet_Networks_Killer_Wireless-AC_NIC_1420

that ID 168c:003c should be Rivet Networks Killer Wireless-AC NIC 1420. I'll give that a try too, if that thing is arriving from china. Because I need NGFF the Compex isn't suitable for me.

Best

Alex

Hi,

@Jack Dowland: Please let us know whether that Card works!

@all: Thank you for your lots of answers!

Regards Meghan

Hi,

@Jack Dowland: Please let us know whether that Card works!

@all: Thank you for your lots of answers!

Regards Meghan

The card arrived today. I haven't had a chance to install it yet. In fact, this is my first Sophos box.  I'll be putting it together at the weekend and I'll definitely report back with my findings :)

Hi, Jack, and welcome to the UTM Community, and your first interaction is helping out - awesome!

Cheers - Bob

Thanks for the warm welcome, Bob :)

OK, I've just installed 9.5 on my system. It's a small embedded device with the N3160 CPU and dual Intel NICs. Contrary to my expectation, I had no problems with an HDMI install. All hardware was recognised during the install except the WiFi card. Unfortunately, I can't set up the device fully today. I will do so at the weekend. Is it possible that the card will be recognised on initial boot?

There's a known problem for built-in wireless.  From the command line, do cat /etc/modules and tell us the result.

Cheers - Bob

I think I've discovered the problem. Due to an incorrect website listing, what I thought was a full-size PCIe slot is really a mSATA/PCIe combo slot. I have taken a chance and ordered a different (half-size mini PCIe) card. Apologies for the mistake.

Bob, I have contacted Jetway, the manufacturer of my device, and I have been told that PCIe WiFi cards can be indeed be used in the mSATA slot. With that cleared up, I have done cat /etc/modules as suggested. The file only contains the line igb.

Thanks, Jack

Meanwhile the Killer 1420 wifi NGFF card arrived. It's not good news that the card isn't recognized under UTM 9.5 in my ZOTAC 323. I'm not sure if it's an issue with ZOTAC or Sophos.

To test the card I installed it in my notebook and it's working. In windows device manager it identifies as PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_003C&CC_0280. So I'm feeling a little bit stuck.

Anyone with a success story?

Best

Alex

Any update here?

Somebody found a card which is working with utm?

Atheros AR5BXB92 will work.

You also have to edit the following by shell root access:

vi /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf-default

press [insert]

Search for and edit:

        #ht_capab=[]

        ht_capab=[HT40+][SHORT-GI-40][TX-STBC][RX-STBC1][DSSS_CCK-40]

press [insert] when done

type :wq for save & quit

Reboot the device